ArticleNeurology2015
Interictal, circulating sphingolipids in women with episodic migraine: A case-control study.
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- Multi-omics approaches to deciphering complex pathological mechanisms of migraine: a systematic review.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2024Pooled it
- Phenotypic and Genotypic Associations Between Migraine and Lipoprotein Subfractions.Neurology · 2021Pooled it
- Clinical Efficacy and Plasma Metabolomics Analysis of Acupuncture for Migraine Treatment.Journal of pain research · 2025Trial
- The Effect of Ambient Temperature on Migraine Disease: A Scoping Review.Brain and behavior · 2025Article
- Sex difference in TRPM3 channel functioning in nociceptive and vascular systems: an emerging target for migraine therapy in females?The journal of headache and pain · 2025Review
- Elevated Serum Levels of Acid Sphingomyelinase in Female Patients with Episodic and Chronic Migraine.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Proteome-wide Mendelian randomization identified potential drug targets for migraine.The journal of headache and pain · 2024Article
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- Pharmacokinetic and Lipidomic Assessment of the In Vivo Effects of Parishin A-Isorhynchophylline in Rat Migraine Models.Journal of analytical methods in chemistry · 2020Article
- The role of dihydrosphingolipids in disease.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2019Review
- A splice variant in the ACSL5 gene relates migraine with fatty acid activation in mitochondria.European journal of human genetics : EJHG · 2016Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo evaluate interictal, circulating sphingolipids in women migraineurs.
methodsIn the fasting state, serum samples were obtained pain-free from 88 women with episodic migraine (EM; n=52) and from controls (n=36). Sphingolipids were detected and quantified by high-performance liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry using multiple reaction monitoring. Multivariate logistic regression was used to examine the association between serum sphingolipids and EM odds. A recursive partitioning decision tree based on the serum concentrations of 10 sphingolipids was used to determine the presence or absence of EM in a subset of participants.
resultsTotal ceramide (EM 6,502.9 ng/mL vs controls 10,518.5 ng/mL; p<0.0001) and dihydroceramide (EM 39.3 ng/mL vs controls 63.1 ng/mL; p<0.0001) levels were decreased in those with EM as compared with controls. Using multivariate logistic regression, each SD increase in total ceramide (odds ratio [OR] 0.07; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.02, 0.22; p<0.001) and total dihydroceramide (OR 0.05; 95% CI: 0.01, 0.21; p<0.001) levels was associated with more than 92% reduced odds of migraine. Although crude sphingomyelin levels were not different in EM compared with controls, after adjustments, every SD increase in the sphingomyelin species C18:0 (OR 4.28; 95% CI: 1.87, 9.81; p=0.001) and C18:1 (OR 2.93; 95% CI: 1.55, 5.54; p=0.001) was associated with an increased odds of migraine. Recursive portioning models correctly classified 14 of 14 randomly selected participants as EM or control.
conclusionThese results suggest that sphingolipid metabolism is altered in women with EM and that serum sphingolipid panels may have potential to differentiate EM presence or absence. CLASSIFICATION OF EVIDENCE: This study provides Class III evidence that serum sphingolipid panels accurately distinguish women with migraine from women without migraine.
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